Born Losers : : A History of Failure in America / / Scott A. Sandage.
This is a pioneering work of American cultural history, which connects everyday attitudes and anxieties about failure to lofty ideals of individualism and salesmanship of self. Sandage's storytelling will resonate with all of us as it brings to life forgotten men and women who wrestled with The...
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Sandage, Scott A., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Born Losers : A History of Failure in America / Scott A. Sandage. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009] ©2006 1 online resource (384 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Prologue: Lives of Quiet Desperation -- 1. Going Bust in the Age of Go-Ahead -- 2. A Reason in the Man -- 3. We Are All Speculators -- 4. Central Intelligence Agency, since 1841 -- 5. The Big Red Book of Third-Rate Men -- 6. Misinformation and Its Discontents -- 7. The War for Ambition -- 8. Big Business and Little Men -- Epilogue: Attention Must Be Paid -- Notes Acknowledgments Index -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star This is a pioneering work of American cultural history, which connects everyday attitudes and anxieties about failure to lofty ideals of individualism and salesmanship of self. Sandage's storytelling will resonate with all of us as it brings to life forgotten men and women who wrestled with The Loser--the label and the experience--in the days when American capitalism was building a nation of winners. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Sep 2021) Capitalism Social aspects United States History 19th century. Failure (Psychology) United States History 19th century. Identity (Psychology) United States History 19th century. Losers United States History 19th century. Social status United States History 19th century. Social values United States History 19th century. Stigma (Social psychology). HISTORY / United States / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) 9783110756067 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442205 print 9780674015104 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674043053 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674043053 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674043053/original |
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